thankfulness-but

Updated: April 30, 2025

Custom before meals ancients formerly made an oblation to Vesta before their meals Christians have substituted grace Quakers agree with others in the necessity of grace or thankfulness-but do not adopt it as a devotional act, unless it comes from the heart allow a silent pause for religious impressions on these occasions observations on a Scotch grace.

Thomas Clarkson - A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 : Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends